Last updated on: (12 February 2024)
Data Controller: If you live in the European Economic Area (âEEAâ), the UK, or Switzerland, Sessions Technologies Romania SRL, a Romanian affiliated company (âSessions Romaniaâ) is the joint controller of any information processed in connection with this Privacy Policy.
We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how and why we collect, store, use and share any information relating to you (âyour personal dataâ) in connection with your use of our Platform. It also explains your rights in relation to your personal data and how to contact us or a relevant regulator in the event you have a complaint.
We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal data about you. When we do so and you are in Europe we are subject to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) in relation to goods and services we offer to individuals and our wider operations in the European Economic Area (EEA).]
This version of our privacy policy is primarily written for adults, including parents and guardians of child users. If you are a child (under 18 years old) you are welcome to read this policy if you find it useful, but we recommend you to have an adult who will explain this policy to you.
This privacy policy is divided into the following sections:
- What this policy applies to
- Personal data we collect about you
- How your personal data is collected
- How and why we use your personal data
- Marketing
- Who we share your personal data with
- How long your personal data will be kept
- Transferring your personal data out of the EEA
- Data processing addendum
- Cookies and other tracking technologies
- Your rights
- Keeping your personal data secure
- How to complain
- Changes to this privacy policy
- How to contact us
1. What this policy applies to
This privacy policy relates to your use of our Platform only.
Throughout our Platform we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties to make additional products and services available to you, such as, Google Drive, Miro, or other cloud storage systems and applications. Those third party websites may also gather information about you in accordance with their own separate privacy policies. For privacy information relating to those third party websites, please consult their privacy policies as appropriate.
Please take into consideration that we do not gather any kind of data on your behalf when you are accessing these services and if there is the necessity to sign in on those platforms, you will do so through their APIs and we will not gather or process any kind of data.
Sessionâs use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app will adhere to Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
2. Personal data we collect about you
The personal data we collect about you depends on the particular activities carried out through our Platform. We may collect and use the following personal data about you:
- your name, address and contact information, including email address and telephone number and company details (if provided)
- information to check and verify your identity, eg. date of birth (if provided)
- your gender, if you choose to give this to us
- location data
- your billing information (if applicable)
- bank account and payment details (if applicable)
- details of any information, feedback or other matters you give to us by phone, email, post or via social media
- your account details, such as username and login details
- your activities on, and use of, our Platform including Biometric Data (vocal recording and video recording) if you choose to use features that operate with this kind of data:;
- your personal or professional interests
- your professional online presence, eg Facebook and LinkedIn profile
- information about the services we provide to you
- your contact history, purchase history and saved items
- information about how you use our Platform and technology systems
- your responses to surveys, competitions and promotions
- any other materials and information you choose to share with us, as part of creating your account and interacting with our products and services.
If you do not provide personal data we ask for where it is (eg indicated to be ârequiredâ at the point of collection), it will prevent us from providing our services to you as explained in the relevant forms on which such data is collected.
We collect and use this personal data for the purposes described in the section âHow and why we use your personal dataâ below.
3. How your personal data is collected
We collect personal data from you:
- directly, when you enter or send us information, such as when you: eg make an account on the Platform, contact us (including via email), send us feedback, purchase products or services via our Platform, share Content to our Platform and complete customer surveys via our website, and
- indirectly, such as your browsing activity while on our Platform; we will usually collect information indirectly using the technologies explain in the section on âCookies and other tracking technologiesâ below
4. How and why we use your personal data
Under data protection law, we can only use your personal data if we have a proper reason, eg:
- where you have given consent
- to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
- for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract, or
- for our legitimate interests or those of a third party
A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your personal data, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests. We will carry out an assessment when relying on legitimate interests, to balance our interests against your own. You can obtain details of this assessment by contacting us (see âHow to contact usâ below).
The table below explains what we use your personal data for and why.
What we use your personal data for | Our reasons |
Create and manage your account with us | To perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract |
Providing products or services to you | To perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract |
Conducting checks to identify you and verify your identity or to help prevent and detect fraud against you or us | For our legitimate interests, ie to minimise fraud that could be damaging for you and/or us |
To enforce legal rights or defend or undertake legal proceedings | Depending on the circumstances:
âto comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
âin other cases, for our legitimate interests, ie to protect our business, interests and rights |
Customise our Platform and its content to your particular preferences based on a record of your selected preferences or on your use of our Platform | Depending on the circumstances:
âyour consent as gathered (eg by the separate cookies tool on our Platform )âsee âCookies and other tracking technologiesâ below
âwhere we are not required to obtain your consent and do not do so, for our legitimate interests, ie to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price
If you have provided such a consent you may withdraw it at any time by changing the setting on the cookies tool. This will not affect the lawfulness of our use of your personal data in reliance on that consent before it was withdrawn. |
Retaining and evaluating information on your recent visits to our Platform and how you move around different sections of our Platform for analytics purposes to understand how people use our Platform so that we can make it more intuitive or to check our Platform is working as intended | Depending on the circumstances:
âyour consent as gathered âsee âCookies and other tracking technologiesâ below
âwhere we are not required to obtain your consent and do not do so, for our legitimate interests, ie to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price
If you have provided such a consent you may withdraw it at any time following the Platform âs instructions (this will not affect the lawfulness of our use of your personal data in reliance on that consent before it was withdrawn) |
Tracking your behaviour on our Platform and deliver you the best experience and interaction afterwards | Your consent as gathered âsee âCookies and other tracking technologiesâ below
If you have provided such a consent you may withdraw it at any time by changing the setting on the cookies tool (this will not affect the lawfulness of our use of your personal data in reliance on that consent before it was withdrawn) |
Communications with you not related to marketing, including about changes to our terms or policies or changes to the products or services or other important notices | Depending on the circumstances:
âto comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
âin other cases, for our legitimate interests, ie to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price |
Protecting the security of systems and data used to provide the services | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
We may also use your personal data to ensure the security of systems and data to a standard that goes beyond our legal obligations, and in those cases our reasons are for our legitimate interests, ie to protect systems and data and to prevent and detect criminal activity that could be damaging for you and/or us |
Statistical analysis to help us understand our customer base | For our legitimate interests, ie to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price |
Updating and enhancing customer records | Depending on the circumstances:
âto perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract
âto comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
âwhere neither of the above apply, for our legitimate interests, eg making sure that we can keep in touch with our customers about existing orders and new products |
Disclosures and other activities necessary to comply with legal and regulatory obligations that apply to our business, eg to record and demonstrate evidence of your consents where relevant and in order to prevent or manage any kind of legal requests | To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations |
Marketing our services to existing and former customers | For our legitimate interests, ie to promote our business to existing and former customers
See âMarketingâ below for further information |
To share your personal data with members of our group and third parties that will or may take control or ownership of some or all of our business (and professional advisors acting on our or their behalf) in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our insolvency
In such cases information will be anonymised where possible and only shared where necessary | Depending on the circumstances:
âto comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
âin other cases, for our legitimate interests, ie to protect, realise or grow the value in our business and assets |
How and why we use your personal dataâsharing
See âWho we share your personal data withâ for further information on the steps we will take to protect your personal data where we need to share it with others.
5. Marketing
We will use your personal data to send you updates (by email, text message, social media messages, telephone) about our products or services, including exclusive offers, promotions or new products or services.
We have a legitimate interest in using your personal data for marketing purposes (see above âHow and why we use your personal dataâ). This means we do not need your consent to send you marketing information. If we change our marketing approach in the future so that consent is needed, we will ask for this separately and clearly.
You have the right to opt out of receiving marketing communications at any time by:
- contacting us at [contact@sessions.us ]
- using the âunsubscribeâ link in emails, or
- updating your marketing preferences on our Platform
We may ask you to confirm or update your marketing preferences if you ask us to provide further products or services in the future, or if there are changes in the law, regulation, or the structure of our business.
We will always treat your personal data with the utmost respect and never sell it outside our company group.
For more information on your right to object at any time to your personal data being used for marketing purposes, see âYour rightsâ below.
6. Who we share your personal data with
We routinely share personal data with:
- within our corporate group: we may share of the information we collect with a parent, subsidiary or other affiliate or our corporate group
- third parties we use to help deliver our products or services to you
- other third parties we use to help us run our business, eg marketing agencies or website hosts and website analytics providers
- in connection with a sale, merger or other business transfer
- our banks
- our lawyers and consultants.
We only allow those organisations to handle your personal data if we are satisfied they take appropriate measures to protect your personal data. We also impose contractual obligations on them to ensure they can only use your personal data to provide services to us and to you.
We or the third parties mentioned above occasionally also share personal data with:
- our and their external auditors, eg in relation to the audit of our or their accounts, in which case the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations
- our and their professional advisors (such as lawyers and other advisors), in which case the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations
- law enforcement agencies, courts, tribunals and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
- other parties that have or may acquire control or ownership of our business (and our or their professional advisers) in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our insolvencyâusually, information will be anonymised but this may not always be possible. The recipient of any of your personal data will be bound by confidentiality obligations
Who we share your personal data with -Sub processors
In order to provide our Services efficiently, we may engage third-party subprocessors to process personal data on our behalf. These subprocessors assist us in delivering our services and may have access to certain personal data as described in this Privacy Policy.
We carefully select subprocessors and ensure they meet strict data protection standards. By using our services, you consent to the transfer of your personal data to these subprocessors, as necessary for the provision of our services. We ensure that any subprocessors we engage are contractually obligated to handle your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws and in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.
A list of our current subprocessors, is available below. We may update this list from time to time as we engage new subprocessors or make changes to existing ones.
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of subprocessors or wish to obtain more information about them, please contact us using the contact details provided at the end of this Privacy Policy.
Sub-processor | Activity |
Livekit | Video call infrastructure |
Google | Hosting and storage |
Innertrends | Analytics tool |
Elastic | Analytics tool |
Log Rocket | Analytics tool |
Mailgun | Mailing service provider |
Mailjet | Mailing service provider |
Hubspot | CRM |
Userlist | CRM |
Slack | Internal comunication |
Gsuite | Back office operations |
Microsoft | One Drive Subscription |
Product Board | Feedback gathering and organization tool |
Attlasian - Jira | Internal project management tool |
Open AI | Autogenerated-summaries and agenda |
Zendesk | Support Infrastructure |
Pulumi | Infrastructure |
Super Publishing CO | Helpcenter Infrastructure |
NGROK | Infrastructure |
Github | Development Infrastructure |
Zendesk | Support infractructure |
Revolgy | Infrastructure |
New Relic | Devops tool |
Collosyan | Video Editing |
Threado | Community tool |
PSPDF Kit | Integration Subscription |
Zapier | Integration Subscription |
7. How long your personal data will be kept
We will not keep your personal data for longer than we need it for the purpose for which it is used. For example, we will keep any transaction details for 5 years, according to our national regulation.
Different retention periods apply for different types of personal data.
We retain your account information for as long as your account is active and a reasonable period thereafter in case you decide to re-activate the Services. We also retain some of your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes, to enforce our agreements, to support business operations, and to continue to develop and improve our Services. If you stop using your account we will delete or anonymize your account data after five years.
If your account is deactivated or disabled, some of your information and the content you have provided will remain in order to allow your other users with whom you shared such content to make full use of the Services.
Following the end of the relevant retention period, we will delete or anonymise your personal data.
If you are in the EEA, please read below
8. Transferring your personal data out of the EEA
The EEA, UK and other countries outside the EEA have differing data protection laws, some of which may provide lower levels of protection of privacy.
It is sometimes necessary for us to transfer your personal data to countries outside the EEA in order to support our business operations. In those cases we will comply with applicable UK and EEA laws designed to ensure the privacy of your personal data.
Under data protection laws, we can only transfer your personal data to a country outside the EEA where:
- in the case of transfers subject to EEA data protection laws, the European Commission has decided that the particular country ensures an adequate level of protection of personal data (known as an âadequacy decisionâ) further to Article 45 of the EU GDPR. A list of countries the European Commission has currently made adequacy decisions in relation to is available here.
- there are appropriate safeguards in place, together with enforceable rights and effective legal remedies for you, or
- a specific exception applies under relevant data protection law
Where we transfer your personal data outside the EEA we do so on the basis of an adequacy decision or (where this is not available) legally-approved standard data protection clauses issued further to Article 46(2) of the EU GDPR. In the event we cannot or choose not to continue to rely on either of those mechanisms at any time we will not transfer your personal data outside the EEA unless we can do so on the basis of an alternative mechanism or exception provided by applicable data protection law and reflected in an update to this policy.]
Any changes to the destinations to which we send personal data or in the transfer mechanisms we rely on to transfer personal data internationally will be notified to you in accordance with the section on âChanges to this privacy policyâ below.
9. Data processing addendum - GDPR
In certain circumstances, as part of our Services, we may process personal data on your behalf and thus acting as a data processor, according to article 28 of EU GDPR. When we act as a data processor, we enter into a Data Processing Addendum (DPA) with our customers to ensure that personal data is processed in accordance with applicable data protection laws and regulations.
Our DPA outlines the terms and conditions governing the processing of personal data by us as a data processor. It includes provisions regarding the nature and purpose of the processing, the types of personal data processed, the duration of the processing, and the security measures implemented to protect the personal data.
You can access and download the DPA here: Data Processing Addendum (DPA)
10. Cookies and other tracking technologies
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (eg computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our Platform . We use cookies and other similar technologies, eg web beacons, action tags, single-pixel gifs on our Platform . These tracking technologies help us recognize you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.
For further information on cookies and similar technologies, eg web beacons, action tags, single-pixel gifs, our use of âcookiesâ and/or relevant similar technologies, when we will request your consent before placing them and how to disable them, please see our [ Cookie Policy].
Your rights
You generally have the following rights, which you can usually exercise free of charge:
Access to a copy of your personal data | The right to be provided with a copy of your personal data |
Correction (also known as rectification) | The right to require us to correct any mistakes in your personal data |
Erasure (also known as the right to be forgotten) | The right to require us to delete your personal dataâin certain situations |
Restriction of use | The right to require us to restrict use of your personal data in certain circumstances, eg if you contest the accuracy of the data |
Data portability | The right to receive the personal data you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third partyâin certain situations |
To object to use | The right to object:
âat any time to your personal data being used for direct marketing (including profiling)
âin certain other situations to our continued use of your personal data, eg where we use your personal data for our legitimate interests unless there are compelling legitimate grounds for the processing to continue or the processing is required for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims |
Not to be subject to decisions without human involvement | The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you
We do not make any such decisions based on data collected by our Platform |
The right to withdraw consents | If you have provided us with a consent to use your personal data you have a right to withdraw that consent easily at any time
You may withdraw consents by contacting us, using the unsubscribe link or the dedicated section in the platform.
Withdrawing a consent will not affect the lawfulness of our use of your personal data in reliance on that consent before it was withdrawn |
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they do and do not apply, please contact us (see âHow to contact usâ below).
If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please email usâsee below: âHow to contact usâ. When contacting us please:
- provide enough information to identify yourself (eg your full name, address and customer or matter reference number) and any additional identity information we may reasonably request from you, and
- let us know which right(s) you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates
11. Keeping your personal data secure
We have appropriate security measures to prevent personal data from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed unlawfully. We limit access to your personal data to those who have a genuine need to access it.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
12. How to complain
Please contact us if you have any queries or concerns about our use of your personal data (see below âHow to contact usâ). We hope we will be able to resolve any issues you may have.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent Supervisory Authority, according to the competent law.
13. Changes to this privacy policy
We may change this privacy policy from time to timeâwhen we make significant changes we will take steps to inform you, for example via by including a prominent link to a description of those changes on our Platform for a reasonable period or by other means, such as email.
14. How to contact us
You can contact us by email if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you, to exercise a right under data protection law or to make a complaint.
Our contact details are shown below: